Managers vs. Leaders

What is the difference between a leader and a manager? Figuring out the distinction between leaders and managers might seem like an academic question to some, but getting the answer right has tremendous, real-world impact. In my last article, I discussed the fact that...

Thinking Innovatively

How Can We Encourage Employees to Think More Innovatively? There are many barriers to thinking more innovatively. The trick is to overcome or compensate for those barriers. But this is not easy. In fact, these barriers are hard to overcome because they often become...

Greenovations

Uniting Innovative Approaches with Sustainability Practices Although widely used, the concept of innovation is often misused. The same could be said with the concept of sustainability. For our definition of greenovations, we combined our description of business...

Where to Innovate? – Apple Story

Portfolios of Innovation and Apple As a business competing in dynamic markets, your company faces threats and opportunities in an economic landscape that is constantly in flux. To meet, understand, survive, and exploit these changes, leaders have to orient their...

Innovation: It’s All About the Dots

Over the last thirty years, the importance of innovation as a core driver of business value has increased to the point where few CEOs would disagree. Unfortunately, most companies are not able to innovate in financially meaningful ways. And for those companies that...

Making Innovation Real – Tata Group

Vision, Capacity, Culture at the Tata Group Companies require three core competencies to make innovation real: vision, to bring innovation closely in alignment with strategy; capacity, to create the systems that can ensure that innovation is sustainable over time;...